she lost her husband in combat when her youngest was three weeks old. these families have given up everything for us and i hope before people go out and celebrate, which i think today needs to be a day of celebration. we are a free country and need to celebrate their service and what they have done and remember them. i hope they take time to dedicate to what today really is all about. todd: that spouse had a three year old, one year old and a three week old and then i just finished with that panel of gold-star parents and you heard us joking, not joking but talking about how stories hit harder when you are a parent. you are about to experience it and understand what that is and listening to cheryl rex, the mom we just interviewed saying what she s going to do today. go to the grave site of her son to be with him. just think about that for a moment and think about so many parents. regardless of the war, who got that call, got that telegram, that no parent wants to get. the c
i had my first cancer diagnosed about six or seven years ago. that waiting time is very, very hard. i don t think until you have been through it, you can actually understand it. despite the walk out, some hospitals are able to continue with some routine operations, but it is a mixed picture. the full impact on cancellations will not be known for a few days. one thing we re seeing that is different from other strike days is that demand for care has been sustained. in previous strike days, we saw that drop. it means the nhs is trying to keep things going, it was already overstretched, but it has fewer resources at its disposal. the government says the bma s pay claim is completely unaffordable. it s urged officials to call off the strike and enter into pay talks along with other health unions in england, and help bring this ongoing dispute to an end. katharine da costa, bbc news. new employment figures showjob vacancies in the uk have fallen for the eighth time in a row. the of
likes of which we have never seen in the world. their navy is larger than ours. biden s budget would send navy backward. average age of our ship are double age of chinese navy, tripling nuclear arsenal. we never faced china and russia with major nuclear arsenal and in space, they are tripling what they are doing in space. they have a major reagan-style arms build-up going on and we re going backward with this budget and putting a cap over the next few years. guys, especially as we re talking memorial day and what people sacrificed for this great nation, that is where my concern lies. we comb through language and talk to leadership. ashley: everybody has to read through this, too. it came down, on the holiday
in asia and i think that s fundamentally misleading because an arms race implies one country expanding, the other country following, a cycle of expansion and expansion. the truth of what s happened in asia over the past 15 years is one of the most dramatic peacetime expansions of military power by any one country in the last 100 years. it s phenomenal. i could give you statistic after statistic but to take one example, between 2014 and 2018, china s navy produced more tonnage of vessels than the navies of france, italy, spain, india, taiwan, any of those individual countries. chinese defence spending now, i think, exceeds the spending ofjapan, india and australia so not small countries combined. so there is no arms race in asia. there is a chinese arms build up, that other countries are quite belatedly beginning to match in different ways. australia is not the only one,
will have a real impact onjobs in othersectors. let s will have a real impact onjobs in other sectors. let s take a closer look now at the arms build up. as allies try to offer notjust diplomatic but military reassurance the us has sent 90 tonnes of what it calls lethal aid to ukraine. there are not many details about what the ship and includes apart from ammunition and it was known that they intending to supply ukrainian troops with. the british have provided short range missiles and a short delete mac small team of british troops will be sent to train the ukrainians in the use of those missiles. three baltic members have sent missiles in the us missiles. close by on the other side of ukraine s borders with russia, it has deployed more than 100,000 troops with some also to the north of ukraine and belarus. it is thought to be tens of thousands of armoured vehicles, tanks and artillery units. let s get back to the roots of this conflict. a profession of russian and european politics an